Movements and migratory processes: Roles and responsibilities of education and learning

Abstract

The English philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell wrote: ‘No political theory is adequate, unless it is applicable to children, as well as to men and women’ (Russell 1916/1997, p. 100). In this section, research and theorizing about migration, cultures, languages and difference is applied to the situations of children, young people, women and men within and following migratory processes and to the contributions of education and learning. This introduction opens with a brief summary of the contexts of migration and of culture early in the twenty-first century; these are followed by discussion of the contexts of education and of learning; a summary of the subject matter and key points within each chapter, with some closing remarks.